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Hello Jason,

We hope all is well with you and Brandy. We figure you passed the bar exam on the first try. If you didn’t it is no disgrace. Won’t you be getting results in about a month? I know you are a busy man and will make us all proud. Your Dad called about a month ago and Pat talked with him as I was not home.

I have a hearing aid in my good ear but still don’t hear well on the phone. He told about being a grandfather again. I hope your brothers settle down and try to make something of their lives. I get depressed being around him with them and your mother calling him so much with their problems. Don’t tell him I said that, please. Did he give you the handgun at your graduation?

If you ever have time to send me some of the geneology on our H*** line I would sure like to have it. I was never able to trace beyond Wiley H***. I found census records of H*** in Duplin Co. N.C. in 1810 and 1820 but they didn’t record children’s names then, only the number by sex. Wiley was born in 1816 and died in Dec. of 1899. He moved to La. from Ozark, Alabama in circa 1845. I’ve wondered if he was the founder of Liberty Hill and when he moved there, and what parish he first settled in. His sons were Thomas Jefferson (my great grandfather) and Benjamin Franklin who was much younger than Jeff. My Dad’s first cousin, Madelle H*** W***, told me in 2002 that her Dad, Tommy H***, (my grandpa’s brother) told her when she was a girl that his ancestors were Mennonites who migrated to America from the German Rhineland. History tells that thousands of Mennonites came to Philadelphia in the 1680’s because of persecution in Germany against all Anabaptists. You mentioned something about a H*** from Londonderry, Ir. Maybe one of the Mennonites settled there for awhile before coming to America. I’ve know several H*** with Irish backgrounds and they spelled Hy**. We hope to hear from you and best wishes on the exam and your job.

LJH